Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – An attorney representing Davis County sparred with a judge Wednesday over the potential impacts of releasing copyrighted jail standards to civil liberties groups. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,” 2nd District Court Judge David Connors said as Blake Hamilton, a contract attorney for the county, made his opening arguments in a trial focused on the standards.

UTAH – If a person of color walked into a ski resort or a ski-town hotel and saw an image of someone like them, White believes, it could change his or her whole experience. Inspired by that revelation and his own history of being seen as “the unicorn on the mountain,” White embarked last year on his series “Skiing in Color.” It depicts portraits of Black skiers and snowboarders in their element — an extreme rarity on ski resort walls and only slightly less so on their slopes. “If they saw a quality painting of a person of color, it would…